Treehouses

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Summary: Challenging, multilayered: the Holocaust and now
Review: I don't mean to stereotype this as a Holocaust-themed play, but it does serve as the most accessible way to approach it. It swings back and forth between an old woman's recollections and her younger self, in a country-like-Hungary, during WW2. This arc is intersected by another woman, who confronts her father's remarriage at one point and his funeral at the other. The choices the women make propel the play's momentum. Not having seen this work on stage, it's difficult at first to put the pieces together, but careful reading and especially an "ear" to the polyphonic voices within the plot turn what may at first sound like an academic exercise into a moving commemoration of loss and gain. I look forward to more from this playwright, born in England 1969 to an Hungarian father, and now living in Dublin.